KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia closed lower on Thursday as renewed geopolitical tensions in West Asia weighed on investor sentiment. At 5 pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) fell 5.97 points, or 0.36 per cent, to 1,677.64 from Wednesday's close of 1,683.61. The benchmark index opened 2.62 points lower at 1,680.99, and moved between 1,676.18 and 1,683.80 throughout the session. However, market breadth was slightly positive, with gainers leading losers 533 to 504, while 547 counters were unchanged, 1,112 untraded, and 12 suspended. Turnover slipped to 2.64 billion units valued at RM2.19 billion from 2.96 billion units valued at RM2.18 billion on Wednesday.
KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 6): Malaysian stocks bucked regional trend to finish higher today, as bargain hunting helped the market to recover from yesterday's fall.
The FBM KLCI closed 0.16% or 2.85 points higher at 1,772.48. The market traded between an intra-day high of 1,772.62 and a low of 1,767.07 today.
Malacca Securities Sdn Bhd senior analyst Kenneth Leong said while the KLCI opened lower today, bargain-hunting activities in selected heavyweights pushed the benchmark index higher.
"It is also probably because of the stronger ringgit and higher crude oil prices that pushed the key index upward," he told theedgemarkets.com.
Leong said trading volume is at a healthy 2 billion range since yesterday, indicating fresh money coming into the market.
However, trading volume fell to 2.21 billion shares worth RM1.81 billion compared with yesterday's 2.53 billion shares worth RM2.18 billion. Market breadth was positive with 407 gainers compared with 377 losers.
According to Bloomberg, Asian shares finished lower today, to extend losses for a second day in a row, after North Korea's nuclear test on Sunday rattled global equity markets.
Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped 0.14%, South Korea's Kospi fell 0.29% while Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 0.46%.
A top North Korean diplomat reportedly warned yesterday his country is ready to send "more gift packages" to the US as world powers struggled to find an effective response to Pyongyang's latest nuclear weapons test.
Source: The Edge
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